Week of January 13

Religion:  We will learn that Jesus taught his followers to pray and we will look at the Our Father
                  and what we are saying to God when we pray the Our Father

Superkids:  We are continuing to work on long and short vowels, we are reviewing the rules we
                     learned earlier for adding -ing or -ed to words and learning the rules for adding -ing or
                     -ed to 'super e' words.  We are also working on identifying the beginning, middle, and
                     end of stories and using context clues.

Writing:  We are working on writing, editing, and revising our opinion writing.  We will also begin
                 working on describing objects in our writing.  Students will also do a fun snowglobe
                 writing/drawing activity.

Math:  We are working on subtracting 2 from a number, counting by 5's and using tally marks,
             problem solving, drawing line segments.

Science/Social Studies:  We will be looking at force this week and the way things can move.  This
                                         will also be the focus of our Innovation Lab this week where students will
                                         race cars.  They will also incorporate their math measuring skills in the
                                         lab to measure the distance traveled by the cars.  We are also starting
                                         our penguin unit. 

     Also we took a break from finishing our dinosaur book that will be published during Christmas, but now that we are back those students that need to finish their writing and pictures will finish them and we will create the cover and then send it in to be published.